The whole world is disintegrating, (when) national feeling, which hitherto was regarded as something lofty and beautiful, has become like a spiritual syphilis that has devoured the brains, and it grins out through the empty eye sockets with moronic hate. – Carl Nielsen

Police are investigating the hate crime after the stickers were pasted on bus stops, cashpoints and at tube stations.
One of the stickers features a photo of London mayor Sadiq Khan, given the name ‘Hamaskhan’ (an attempt to link him to Palestinian Islamist group Hamas).

The appearance of the stickers has been viewed as evidence that people feel more and more comfortable expressing racist and Islamphobic views.

The number of homophobic attacks more than doubled in the three months after the Brexit vote, with toxicity fostered by the EU referendum debate spreading beyond race and religion, new figures suggest.

One woman said she and her family have left the capital after they were attacked in their home. Erzsebet Trautman, 49, moved from Hungary to London three years ago. But a month ago, she left her flat in Camden and returned to Budapest fearing for her safety.

Another woman, who only gave her name as Nancy, had been living on a south London estate for years with her husband and children after moving to the UK from Spain. But since June 24, the day after the Brexit vote, she has been living in fear after being cornered by three men who racially abused her.

“They started to be really aggressive,” she said. “I can’t even describe it, it’s something that you feel in your heart.”